Even after a 37-count indictment against him was handed down two weeks ago, the Justice Department continues to investigate Donald Trump's actions since the 2020 presidential election. Why, then, has the department taken no action about his behavior in the months around the 2016 election -- behavior already found potentially illegal by both the department and the courts?
Mueller believed himself limited in the actions he could recommend by a 50-year-old Justice Department policy that prohibits indictment of a sitting president. Thus, his report refused to take a stand on whether the president had committed any crimes but did say that it"does not exonerate him" either. Any decision on whether to seek an indictment ought to be postponed until after the president leaves office when any immunity from prosecution disappears.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Obstructing an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election seems at least as serious as conspiring to obstruct the return of classified documents taken from the White House in 2021. And yet the former is, in Shakespeare's words,"as dead as a doornail," while a tentative court date has already been set for the latter.
Before I start speculating, I should note that current Attorney General Merrick Garland and I were law school classmates, and I have the utmost respect for him.
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